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Sergey lied to you (and likely also to the immigration officer). All cattle in that area was shot and buried, all contaminated equipment was abandoned, even the

by ein0p 2y ago

Sergey lied to you (and likely also to the immigration officer). All cattle in that area was shot and buried, all contaminated equipment was abandoned, even the stuff that could be cleaned up. A chip with such coarse lithography would need to be _in_ Chernobyl to experience any bit flips.

culebron21 2y ago
This sounds really like an urban legend.
trhway 2y ago
>All cattle in that area was shot and buried The story is about cattle from outside of the exclusion zone. In particular Homel and Mogilev regions of Belarus got lion share of the fallout. No cleanup was done there and anything what can accumulate the stuff, like say cattle grazing in the open, would back then make your Geiger sing. Though flipping the old Soviet electronics - i'd bet on say grid power fluctuation due to say passing train if it were electric powered, bad grounding, current leaks everywhere when wet, etc. Back in the 80-ies in our city the 220V grid's voltage sometimes would go beyond the 250V - the max of our on-the-wall voltmeter's analog display - for unknown reasons, and it wouldn't be like just few-second spikes, it would go for tens of minutes at least. Googled a bit and here we're, even exclusion zone cattle made it into "kolbasa" : https://time.com/4305507/chernobyl-30-agriculture-disaster/ https://time.com/4305507/chernobyl-30-agriculture-disaster/ "Half of the animals were too contaminated to keep, and 25,000 were sent immediately to slaughterhouses. Soviet enterprise managers hated to waste valuable animal products. They wrote instructions that the contaminated meat be graded by levels of radioactivity. Then workers were to thoroughly wash the medium- to low-range meat and mix it with clean meat in sausages to send to shops all over the vast USSR. ... The Ministry of Industrial Agriculture originally recommended treating the radioactive wool as workers would any wool. Employees of the Chernigov wool factory, 50 miles from the Chernobyl plant, unloaded the raw wool, sorted it by hand, washed it and baled it. As they worked, dust rose and hovered over the factory floor. Most employees were women. By late summer of 1986, they started to feel strange—often nauseous, with scratchy throats, and unusually fatigued. "

by ein0p 2y ago

culebron21 2y ago

This sounds really like an urban legend.

trhway 2y ago

>All cattle in that area was shot and buried The story is about cattle from outside of the exclusion zone. In particular Homel and Mogilev regions of Belarus got lion share of the fallout. No cleanup was done there and anything what can accumulate the stuff, like say cattle grazing in the open, would back then make your Geiger sing. Though flipping the old Soviet electronics - i'd bet on say grid power fluctuation due to say passing train if it were electric powered, bad grounding, current leaks everywhere when wet, etc. Back in the 80-ies in our city the 220V grid's voltage sometimes would go beyond the 250V - the max of our on-the-wall voltmeter's analog display - for unknown reasons, and it wouldn't be like just few-second spikes, it would go for tens of minutes at least. Googled a bit and here we're, even exclusion zone cattle made it into "kolbasa" : https://time.com/4305507/chernobyl-30-agriculture-disaster/ https://time.com/4305507/chernobyl-30-agriculture-disaster/ "Half of the animals were too contaminated to keep, and 25,000 were sent immediately to slaughterhouses. Soviet enterprise managers hated to waste valuable animal products. They wrote instructions that the contaminated meat be graded by levels of radioactivity. Then workers were to thoroughly wash the medium- to low-range meat and mix it with clean meat in sausages to send to shops all over the vast USSR. ... The Ministry of Industrial Agriculture originally recommended treating the radioactive wool as workers would any wool. Employees of the Chernigov wool factory, 50 miles from the Chernobyl plant, unloaded the raw wool, sorted it by hand, washed it and baled it. As they worked, dust rose and hovered over the factory floor. Most employees were women. By late summer of 1986, they started to feel strange—often nauseous, with scratchy throats, and unusually fatigued. "